A Case Study Toward the Direct Language Learning Strategies of EFL Students
| Autor: | MUHYİDDİN, Najib Khoirul, İ, Sumard, MARMANTO, Sri |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 7, Issue: 1 26-34 International Journal of Educational Research Review |
| ISSN: | 2458-9322 |
| Popis: | This case study aimed at investigating direct language learning strategies, their implementation, andthe reasons beyond the uses of those strategies. Six third semester EFL students at a university inKudus were purposively involved as the subjects. Questionnaires, interviews, and observations weredeployed as the techniques of data collection. The data were analyzed using an interactive model.Triangulation was undertaken to reach the data’s credibility. The findings showed that 1) most of thestudents used memory, cognitive, and compensation strategies with the exception of one studentusing no cognitive strategy. 2) They implemented the memory strategy by using understandable newEnglish words from novels, YouTube videos, and English songs into spoken utterances to drill theirmemories, and engaging friends into continuous practices as the implementation of cognitivestrategy. The implementation of the compensation strategy was done by striving to retrieve similarEnglish words from their memories and replacing the forgotten English words with Indonesianwords to maintain their speaking fluency. 3) Their reasons for the memory strategy were to help thestudent make it easier to memorize English words, practicing English speaking using interestingmedia improved their self-confidence and fluent communicative abilities, and by adjusting alongsideapproximating messages and switching to mother tongue supported their English fluency. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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